In addition to the Anthurium sp. Nov. 'df', which was taken from the northern forests of Ecuador by Dewey Fisk in the 1990s, he probably also brought a second plant with him to his nursery in the USA. Both plants are probably species, but neither has been scientifically recognized or described.
The latter was the plant we now know as Anthurium 'OG Portillae', which was passed on from Fisk to Enid Offolter of NSE Tropicals. The Anthurium 'OG Portillae' is phenotypically similar to Anthurium sp. Nov. 'df' is comparable, but has significantly more pronounced veins in color and generally has a brighter green appearance. Our entry on Anthurium sp. Nov. You can find 'df' here (sp. Nov DF (species nova Dewey Fisk)).
Enid Offolter developed this plant obtained from Fisk through numerous selection processes and unfortunately undocumented, open or contaminated pollinations into, among others, the Anthurium 'NSE Portillae', 'Portilloi' and 'Dorito Port', or the original plant served as the basis for these cultivars . As is so often the case, there are only oral traditions about this process, the parent plants and the development of the Anthurium 'Portillae' and unfortunately no written documentation.
Versions or stages of these cultivars probably arrived in Indonesia at a previously unknown point in time. This would give rise to the plants that are widely sold today under the name Anthurium 'Indo Portillae'. Phenotypically, these are actually more reminiscent of Anthurium sp. Nov. 'df' . So we can only speculate here and put these plants, like so many other plants in the anthurium hobby, in the category of mysteries.
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